On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org> writes:
> > Is this possible with PostgreSQL?
>
> SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 0
>
> works in recent releases, though I think not before 7.1 or so.
>
> You'd want to avoid anything that involves a SORT step, though,
> since it's not truly "not executing the query", just abandoning
> it as soon as the first output row has been generated internally.
Okay. That's cool. The reason I ask is that I have this little utility
for Sybase where you give it a query and it generates a C++ class with
getters named for the columns, yadda yadda.
Maybe if I get ambitious, I might think about adding the functionality. :)
Thanks alot,
Marc.
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